Moonstardust
Banned
When Erika was dressed in her kimono she looked so elegant + my favorite part was when we saw her flashback of when she met Gloom. 
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Leonhart
Imagineer
Now that Satoshi-tachi were in Tamamushi City, I assumed that Satoshi would just challenge Erika with no problems, but I was wrong. The way Erika treated Satoshi was uncalled for, as was the way Kasumi and Takeshi abandoned him. Erika's tale about Kusaihana saving her as a child was touching, though.
Wednesdayz
Banned
I loved Erika's personality and the battle between her and Ash was amusing. Ash dressing up as a girl to enter Celadon's Gym was hilarious.
Erika was one of the first Gym Leaders I seen and liked. She was cute and I used to laugh the way she and her girls treated Ash when he dissed the perfume. I was fooled by how Erika was the manager under the kimono. That took me a while to figure that one out. I thought Ash cross-dressing was funny. I loved that part. That proves he'll do whatever he takes to battle. This should have been turned into a two episode arc though.
Wednesdayz
Banned
It wasn't exactly hard to tell that it was Erika, though. I mean, Ash did recognize her when he saw her at Celadon's Gym. :x
Leonhart
Imagineer
Satoshi insulted Erika, along with the pride of the Tamamushi Gym in the perfume shop. So everyone acting rudely to him made sense. Satoshi shouldn't have been such a loud-mouth in this episode.
Manchee
extra toasty
This was always one of my favorite episodes as a kid. I liked Ash's kiddish behavior in this episode and seeing him, Jessie, and James dress up to get into the gym always amused me. Watching it now, I don't think Ash deserved his badge as much since he helped Team Rocket get into the gym, ultimately resulting in them causing the fire. Either way, Gloom is what really fascinated me in this episode. I'm not sure why, by there was a quality about it that equally intrigued me and crept me out. I wish Ash and the gang stayed in Celadon a little longer (and now watching the episode back I wish he had lost to Erika officially and had to stick around to train, redeem himself, and re-battle her.
KyogreThunder
Call of Fate
A meh episode. Erika kicking Ash out of the Gym for disliking her perfume was annoying. Ash getting the Badge for just saving Gloom felt cheap, but Gloom seemed overpowered in this episode.
3/10
3/10
Leonhart
Imagineer
Erika's Kusaihana did seem a bit too powerful, which is funny since every other Kusaihana that we'll see in future episodes will seem incredibly generic by comparison.
Wasted potential comes to mind.
Celadon City is basically the shopping district of the Kanto region and all we see is a perfume shop and a gym. They don't go to the Pokemon department store, there is no plot with the Rocket Game Corner that easily could have been worked into expand this to a two-parter. Nothing.
Looks like Ash stopped hesitating over gratitude badges. Don't know Pikachu couldn't have beat Gloom with its apparent secret strategy. This was easily the worst of not actually earned Kanto badges. At least with Brock he was technically going to win even if by fluke. At least with Misty he probably would have won seeing as how Pidgeotto knocked out Misty's strongest water Pokemon. At least he technically won against Sabrina in a really not fair at all way but there was some sort of victory. Not the case here.
The episode should have had Ash fighting Erika while he was in drag.
Celadon City is basically the shopping district of the Kanto region and all we see is a perfume shop and a gym. They don't go to the Pokemon department store, there is no plot with the Rocket Game Corner that easily could have been worked into expand this to a two-parter. Nothing.
Looks like Ash stopped hesitating over gratitude badges. Don't know Pikachu couldn't have beat Gloom with its apparent secret strategy. This was easily the worst of not actually earned Kanto badges. At least with Brock he was technically going to win even if by fluke. At least with Misty he probably would have won seeing as how Pidgeotto knocked out Misty's strongest water Pokemon. At least he technically won against Sabrina in a really not fair at all way but there was some sort of victory. Not the case here.
The episode should have had Ash fighting Erika while he was in drag.
BTS_fan
Banned
Yeah they totally dropped the ball by giving Celadon City so little fanfare. I didn't mind the gym subplot since seeing Ash in drag was hilarious, but other than that the setting just wasn't really exciting.
Firefo×Fennekin
Banned
Ash seemed more overconfident and brash here than he usually is as seen when he made rude comments about perfume when he was at Erika's store. And while talking about her, I have to say that she looked so good with that kimono and I think she should've kept it throughout the whole episode. As for the Gym match itself it was a waste of time since Tangela and Weepinbell were weak and Ash didn't even properly beat Erika's Gloom and got the badge for free. 7/10
Leonhart
Imagineer
Firefo×Fennekin said:
I liked her more traditional outfit compared to her regular outfit that she wore when she battled Satoshi, although I figure that she was given regular clothing during the second part of the episode to differentiate between her perfume store manager persona and her Gym Leader persona.